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 A little thought from Napoleon Hill . It's not the epitaph on your tombstone but the record of your deeds that may perpetuate your name after death.
Alfred Nobel had an opportunity afforded to very few. When his brother died, the newspaper confused the two and published Alfred's obituary instead of his brother's. As he read his own obituary, Alfred realized that the world would remember him for his invention of dynamite - an instrument of destruction. It was because of that experience that he decided to fund the Nobel Prizes. Today, most of the world knows his name in connection with humankind's greatest achievements. Good deeds live on in the minds of others. When you do a kindness for someone else, you set in motion a force for good that will remain long after you're gone.
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We should always Judge ourselves first.
 How can you judge others accurately if you have not learned to judge yourself accurately?
The ability to evaluate yourself and your performance objectively is critical to your relationships with others and will have an enormous impact upon the level of success you achieve during your lifetime. Unless you can honestly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, how can you ever expect to improve your performance? You must determine where you are before you can develop a plan to get you where you would like to be. If you were an independent, dispassionate observer, what advice would you give to yourself to improve your skills, your work habits, your interaction with others, and your contribution to the organization? Honesty about yourself is the first step toward self-improvement.
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